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THE  STONEWALL  JACKSON 

Manual  Training  aridf'"'^^! 
Industrial  School. 


A  FRANK  AND  FULL  ACCOUNT 
OF  THE  BOARD’S  STEWARD¬ 
SHIP  IS  HEREIN  MADE ;  ALSO 
STATEMENT  SHOWING  PLANS, 
CONDITIONS  AND  PURPOSES. 


state  Superintendent  Joyner,  in  speaking  to  the  bill  before  the  Joint 
Educational  Committee,  which  gave  a  unanimous  “favorable”  report, 
said : 

Tt  is  eminently  proper  that  this  bill  should  have  been  referred  to  the 
committees  on  education.  This  school  should  be  considered  from  the  first 
as  a  part  of  the  educational  system,  necessary  for  its  completion  and 
supplying  a  need  that  no  other  part  of  the  system  can  supply.  There 
is  and  always  will  be  a  number  of  children  among  us,  and  among  all 
people,  for  whom  there  is  written  above  the  door  of  the  home,  “No 
hope”;  above  the  door  of  the  schoolhouse,  “No  hope”;  and  even  above 
the  door  of  the  temple  of  justice  itself,  “No  hope.”  In  the  name  of 
civilization  and  Christianity  we  ought  to  provide  somewhere  for  this, 
class  of  children  one  institution  above  whose  door  there  shall  be  written 
in  letters  of  living  light,  “Hope,”  for  the  most  hopeless  child,  where 
he  may  have  a  chance  to  develop  the  spark  of  divinity  that  is^dden.  in 
the  heart  of  every  child  and  be  saved  from  the  everlasting'^doohi  oC 
criminality  to  the  glorious  privilege  of  good  citizenship. 


RALEIGH  : 

Er)wARi)S  A  Broughton  Printing  Co. 
19J9. 


THE 


Stonewall  Jackson  Training  School. 

[From  Raleigh  News  and  Observer,  February  10,  1909.] 


To  the  Editor:  You  have  asked  me 
for  an  article  for  publication  in  The 
News  and  Observer,  on  the  Reforma¬ 
tory,  as  the  public  is  pleased  to  term 
it.  I  appreciate  this  opportunity  of 
giving  to  the  public,  in  general,  and 
to  the  members  of  the  General  As¬ 
sembly,  in  particular,  an  account  of 
the  board’s  stewardship. 

Its  Beginning. 

The  General  Assembly  of  1907,  af¬ 
ter  a  full  and  thorough  discussion  of 
the  question,  the  needs  for  such  an 
institution  being  presented  by  the 
King’s  Daughters,  by  ministers  of  the 
Gospel  and  by  various  educational  and 
charity  workers,  chartered  the  Stone¬ 
wall  Jackson  Manual  Training  and  In¬ 
dustrial  school  for  wayward  and  un¬ 
fortunate  white  boys.  North  Carolina 
has  always  been  cautious  and  conserv¬ 
ative,  and  perhaps  for  this  reason, 
more  than  any  other,  the  State  is 
among  the  very  last  of  the  Union  to 
provide  for  this  phase  of  education 
among  its  children..  But  our  State  has 
one  virtue  that  no  other  State  pos¬ 
sesses  to  a  greater  degree:  Being 
once  convinced  of  her  duty,  she  does 
it  earnestly  and  faithfully. 

An  appropriation  of  ten  thousand 
dollars  was  made  for  the  beginning 
of  the  work,  and  the  responsibility  of 
inaugurating  this  new  educational  un¬ 
dertaking  in  'the  State  was  placed  in 
the  hands  of  fifteen  people,  four  nam¬ 
ed  in  the  charter  and  eleven  by  the 
Governor  upon  nominations  and  sug¬ 
gestions  by  the  charter  members.  The 
Board  of  Trustees  follows: 

Mrs.  Stonewall  Jackson,  Charlotte. 

Mrs.  I.  W.  Faison,  Charlotte. 

Miss  Easdale  Shaw,  Rockingham. 

]\Irs.  W.  H.  S.  Burgyn,  Weldon. 

Mrs.  D.  Y.  Cooper,  Henderson. 

Mrs.  W.  N.  Reynolds,  Winston. 

Mrs.  A.  L.  Coble,  Statesville. 


Mrs.  G.  P.  Erwin,  Morganton. 

Mr.  Caesar  Cone,  Greensboro. 

Prof.  J.  J.  Blair,  Wilmington. 

Dr.  PI.  A.  Royster,  Raleigh. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Tucker,  Asheville. 

Mr.  R.  O.  Everitt,  Durham. 

Mr.  D.  B.  Coltrane,  Concord. 

Mr.  J.  P.  Cook,  Concord. 

Organization  and  Location. 

Governor  Glenn  called  a  meeting 
of  the  trustees  at  Raleigh  in  Septem¬ 
ber,  190  7.  The  temporary  organiza¬ 
tion,  which  at  a  later  meeting  in 
Greensboro  became  a  permanent  one, 
is  as  follows: 

J.  P.  Cook,  chairman. 

J.  H.  Tucker,  vice-chairman. 

H.  A.  Royster,  M.  D.,  secretary. 

Caesar  Cone,  treasurer. 

Later  when  the  institution  was  lo¬ 
cated,  for  convenience  and  the  more 
satisfactory  conduct  of  the  affairs,  Mr. 
Cone,  suggesting  that  the  treasurer 
should  live  at  the  site,  resigned  and 
to  succeed  him  as  treasurer,  the  board 
unanimously  elected  Mr.  D.  B.  Col¬ 
trane. 

The  board  advertised  for  proposals 
for  sites  of  not  less  than  200  acres.  A 
large  number  of  offers  were  made,  but 
each  of  them  asked  for  cash  a  little 
less  than  the  State’s  appropriation. 
The  board  unanimously  agreed  and 
determined  that  the  site  must  be  a 
donation  and  one  healthfully  located 
and  where  the  usual  crops  of  the  State 
may  be  successfully  and  profitable 
raised. 

Whatever  my  future  connection  with 
the  institution  may  be,  or  wherever 
my  lot  may  be  cast,  one  of  the  hap¬ 
piest  and  sweetest  experiences  of  my 
life  will  always  be  the  treatment  of 
my  neighbors,  the  great  good  people 
of  the  good  town  of  Concord.  Their 
response  then  and  since  to  my  appeals 
for  aid  in  making  a  home  for  this 


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important  educational  institution  was 
unselfish  and  magnificent.  By  this 
generous  act  of  a  generous  people, 
without  personal  reward  or  the  hope  of 
a  reward,  except  in  the  sweet  con¬ 
sciousness  of  doing  a  noble  deed,  the 
State  became  the  possessor  of  nearly 
three  hundred  (300)  acres  of  land; 
property,  valued  upon  the  basis  of 
surrounding  sales,  worth  more  than 
$10,000.  It  is  situated  on  the  South¬ 
ern  Railway  and  two  miles  south  of 
Concord.  Its  elevation  is  780  feet 
above  sea  level.  The  building  site  is 
ideal  and  overlooks  a  territory  the 
radius  of  which  is  17  miles.  On  the 
place  is  a  splendid  rock  quarry,  from 
which  the  railway  in  the  past  has  se¬ 
cured  an  enormous  amount  of  ballast. 
The  place  has  running  streams,  good 
pastures  and  has  many  large  level 
fields,  which  under  kind  treatment  and 
intelligent  tilling  will  prove  invalua¬ 
ble  in  the  conduct  of  the  school. 

On  the  place  are  four  sm.all  houses, 
such  as  you  might  expect  on  an  old 
fashioned  cotton  farm.  Our  Super¬ 
intendent,  burying  pride,  but  showing 
his  love  for  the  work  and  his  appre¬ 
ciation  of  the  appealing  calls  from 
anxious  mothers,  is  living  in  one  of 
these  cabins.  He  deserves  and  needs 
a  better  home,  and  the  faith  he  dis¬ 
plays  in  the  goodness  of  his  beloved 
State,  for  which  he  and  his  board  are 
spending  themselves,  surely  will  be  as 
bread  cast  upon  the  waters. 

System  of  Cottages. 

Though  North  Carolina  has  many  a 
criminal  and  a  life  of  use  and  profit 
in  consequence  lost  to  the  State,  be¬ 
cause  such  an  institution  has  not  been 
in  existence  in  the  past,  we  have  one 
decided  advantage  in  this  delay.  The 
work  has  passed  beyond  the  experi¬ 
mental  stage.  We  know,  by  the  ex¬ 
periments  and  heavy  costs  of  other 
states,  what  now  is  the  best  system. 
Years  ago,  the  idea  was  to  hurdle  the 
entire  crowd  into  one  building,  sur¬ 
rounded  by  h'gh  walls.  That  is  but  a 
prison,  and  the  fact  staring  each  boy 
in  his  face  defeated  the  very  purposes 
intended. 

Where  funds  were  available,  all  such 


have  been  discarded;  and  the  dormito¬ 
ry  or  single  building  idea  has  given 
way  to  what,  for  the  lack  of  a  better 
name,  is  designated  as  the  “Cottage 
System.”  Having  adopted  this  sys¬ 
tem  because  it  is  the  best,  it  is  pleas¬ 
ing  also  that  it  proves  itself  to  us  as 
the  most  practical  from  a  financial 
standpoint.  Here  and  there  we  shall 
find  a  man,  a  woman,  an  organiza¬ 
tion,  to  whom  the  cost  of  one  cottage 
is  not  beyond  a  simple  generosity  or 
a  purse;  and  on  this  account  we  are 
not  asking  the  State  for  any  additional 
cottages.  These  we  propose  to  add  as 
the  individual  donor  may  be  found. 
The  cottage  system  has  an  additional 
good  point,  which  permit  me  to  speak 
of  right  here.  With  the  pittance  we 
had  to  start  on  and  being  confronted 
by  a  panic,  that  touched  the  liberal 
giver  the  hardest,  we  were  enabled  by 
begging,  by  praying,  by  getting  folks 
to  take  off  profits  on  material  and  all 
official  hands  working  lor  glory  and 
love,  to  have  two  cottages  ready  by 
this  time  w’orth,  complete  and  furnish¬ 
ed,  twenty  thousand  dollars.  This  is 
a  stewardship  that,  running  no  risk 
of  being  declared  vain,  the  board  can 
and  does  feel  proud  of.  The  members 
of  the  board  associated  with  me  ha\<^ 
given  their  best  thought  and  help. 
They  have  attended  meetings,  bearing 
their  own  expense  in  railroad  fare  and 
hotel  bills,  and  on  occasions  when  it 
meant  a  sacrifice  to  individual  busi¬ 
ness  and  in  personal  comfort.  Not 
one  cent  has  any  member  of  the  board 
received  for  services,  though  a  number 
of  them  have  made  gifts  personally 
and  inspired  others  to  make  donations. 

Details  All  Worked  Out. 

Every  detail  of  what  shall  be  event¬ 
ually  a  magnificent,  humane  and  ed¬ 
ucational  institution  has  been  worked 
out.  The  location  of  every  building 
has  been  fixed.  We  know  where  the 
barn  and  milk-house,  to  be  built  by 
the  boys  when  they  are  working,  shall 
be  located.  We  know  where  the  wood¬ 
working  shop  shall  be  placed  when 
an  interested  friend  says  the  word  to 
commence  We  know  where  the  little 
chapel  shall  be  built,  in  which  every 


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denomination  known  to  Christianity 
shall  in  rotation  hold  serA’ice,  Avhen 
time  will  permit  laying  the  question 
of  cost  per  capita  before  the  official 
heads  of  the  several  denominations  in 
North  Carolina  We  know  where  the 
drill  grounds  shall  be  as  soon  as  our 
own  boys  may  find  time  to  make  their 
imitation  guns  of  wood,  for  the  gov¬ 
ernment  of  the  institution  will  be  mili¬ 
tary  We  know  Avhere  the  little  pa¬ 
vilion  shall  be  built  for  weekly  con¬ 
certs  (music  hath  charms)  when  we 
find  the  man  to  donate  us  instru¬ 
ments.  We  know  where  the  other 
eight  cottages  ore  to  be  built (  two 
now  complete)  as  soon  as  we  can  find 
five  benevolent  folks  or  charitable  or¬ 
ganizations  to  furnish  the  funds,  and 
the  boys  can  find  time  from  their  stu¬ 
dies  to  assist  in  erection.  Three  of 
the  remaining  eight  are  provided  for. 
One  of  them  the  King’s  Daughters  are 
raising  funds  for;  another  will  be  pro¬ 
vided  for  by  a  source  we  are  not  at 
liberty  at  this  time  to  make  known; 
and  the  third  we  have  reason  to  know 
that  the  several  county  superintend¬ 
ents  of  the  State  will  provide  for  to  be 

known  as . cottage,  name  to 

be  selected  at  the  next  annual  meet¬ 
ing.  We  know  where  the  pastures 
shall  be  (already  made)  when  funds 
available  for  the  purchase  of  cattle 
can  be  had.  We  know  where  the  corn 
and  cotton  fields  and  garden  spots 
shall  be  when  spring  comes  on.  We 
know  where  the  little  hosiery  mill 
shall  be  located,  when  funds  for  the 
building  can  be  secured,  for  a  friend 
has  been  found  to  furnish  the  ma¬ 
chines.  We  know  where  our  crushed 
rock  for  building  purposes  and  for 
domestic  sale  shall  come  from,  when 
a  gentleman  of  Raleigh  teils  us  that 
we  may  have  a  good  rock  crusher 
standing  just  one  half  mile  distant 
from  our  property.  We  know  where 
a  splendid  driven  well,  a  tower  and  a 
tank  shall  be,  because  they  are  al¬ 
ready  in  existence,  made  possible  by 
the  unsolicited  donation  of  that  brave 
soldier,  polite  gentleman  and  correct 
man,  Gen.  R.  P.  Hoke  and  his  son 
Van  Wych,  a  chip  off  the  “old  block,’’ 


which  to  him  seems  and  is  the  highest 
compliment  he  needs.  We  know  last 
but  not  least  where  one  of  the  most 
important  buildings  shall  be  located. 
But  we  defer,  for  another  place,  fuller 
facts. 

Wliat  i.s  a  Cottage? 

We  have  two  of  the  ten  cottages 
complete.  Pach  accommodate  30  boys 
and  the  officer  and  his  wife,  who  is 
matron.  The  cottage  is  built  of  brick, 
three  stories  high  with  a  large,  well 
lighted  attic.  It  is  covered  with  slate. 
No  more  substantial  buildings  and 
pleasing  to  the  eye,  without  expensive 
ruffies  and  frills,  can  be  found  in  the 
State.  They  are  52x5  2  feet.  The  first 
fioor  is  divided  up  into  storage  rooms, 
recreation  room,  toilet  rooms  (plumb¬ 
ing  and  sewerage  already  installed) 
shower  baths,  personal  Avardrobes,  etc. 
Treading  from  this  to  second  floor  is  an 
iron  staii'Avay  enclosed  in  brick,  and 
it  appears  and  is  a  part  of  the  build¬ 
ing.  The  second  floor,  fronted  by  an 
attractiA'e  porch,  contains  kitchen,  din¬ 
ing-room,  assembly  room,  officer’s 
room,  small  hall  and  stairway  for  use 
of  officer  and  matron  exclusively.  The 
same  iron  stair  continues  to  third  floor, 
Avhere  there  is  a  sleeping  room  con¬ 
taining  30  white  enameled  iron  bed¬ 
steads.  This  room  has  12  large  win- 
doAvs  and  transoms  and  is  open  on 
three  sides  to  the  outside  Avorld. 

This  floor  also  contains  three  small 
rooms  for  the  exclusi\^e  use  of  the 
officer.  The  attic  may  be  used  for 
storage  purposes  and  at  times  may  be 
needed  to  hold  some  necessary  pri- 
A-ate  conference  with  certain  of  the 
pupils  when  occasion  deniands. 

All  of  the  ten  cottages  to  be  built 
Avill  be  exactly  alike,  inside  and  out. 

The  GoA'criniiewt  ami  Daily  Program. 

As  preA'iously  said  the  goA'ernment 
is  military./'  Each  cottage  contains  in 
reality  a  family;  in  government,  a  mil¬ 
itary  company.  One  half  of  these  boys 
attend  school  one  half  day  and  work 
the  other  half.  The  boy  that  makes 
the  best  record  in  study,  in  applica¬ 
tion  to  duty,  in  demeanor  and  in  the 
care  and  keep  of.  his  person,  becomes 


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captain.  The  one  standing  second  in 
grade  becomes  lieutenant.  The  offi¬ 
cer  in  charge  of  the  cottage  envoys  m 
the  government  of  the  institution  the 
title  of  Colonel.  Superintendent  Wal¬ 
ter  Thompson,  large  in  frame,  strong 
and  bright  in  intellect,  big-hearted  but 
firm,  earnest  and  loyal  in  his  work, 
the  equal  of  any  young  educator  in 
the  State,  the  friend  of  the  bright, 
bad  boy,  and  whose  selection  I  regard 
as  reflecting  the  wisdom  of  the  board 
and  whose  acceptance  I  especially  re¬ 
gard  as  the  reflection  of  a  Christian,  a 
noble  man  and  a  patriot,  is  the  gen¬ 
eral.  There  are  no  stripes,  no  chains, 
no  real  guns.  Every  pupil,  officer, 
teacher  and  employe  wears  a  uniform 
made  of  the  same  goods;  at  work  time 
all  wear  overalls  made  of  the  same 
goods. 

Some  will  try  to  escape,  but  they 
will  come  back  for  the  system  is  so 
perfect.  It  may  be  of  interest  to  your 
readers  to  look  into  the  life  of  a  cot¬ 
tage  just  at  sun  down.  Twenty-eight 
boys  are  seated  at  tables  eating  whole¬ 
some,  yet  plain  food.  They  have  clean 
faces  and  hands.  Hair  neatly  brush¬ 
ed.  Twm  boys-  delegated  for 
the  week  to  assist  the  matron 
in  cooking,  etc.,  are  waiting  on  the 
tables.  Supper  is  finished.  In  the 
assembly  hall,  some  are  playing  in¬ 
nocent  games,  some  reading  good 
books  (hundreds  of  which  loving 
Christian  friends  of  the  State  have 
have  already  sent  in),  at  9  o’clock  all 
retire  to  first  floor.  They  undress, 
hanging  up  their  clothes  in  individual 
wardrobes.  They  don  night-shirts 
and,  putting  on  house  slippers,  march 
up  two  flights  of  stairs.  The  doors 
close  behind.  Each  boy  has  a  bed. 
The  window  sash  rises  only  5  inches 
at  bottom — it  comes  down  at  top  only 
5  inches.  The  transoms  elevated  12 
feet,  open  entirely  if  weather  de¬ 
mands.  It  is  35  feet  to  the  ground. 
To  keep  intruders  away  or  guard 
against  fire  there  is  of  course  a  night 
watchman  on  constant  duty.  It  is 
hardly  probable  that  ainy  boy,  in  his 
night  shirt  alone,  would  become  so 
home  sick  during  night  and  leap  down 


35  feet  into  the  night  and  go  away 
before  breakfast  time! 

The  arrangements  for  the  care, 
keep,  instruction  and  control  during 
the  day  are  equally  as  satisfactory. 
Some  boys  may  get  away — just  for 
awhile;  but  they’ll  come  back.  There 
is  nothing  else  possible,  under  our 
arrangements. 

Is  There  a  Demand? 

I  would,  to  argue  this  point,  insult 
the  ladies,  who  appeared  before  the 
General  Assembly  of  1907,  and  the 
Assembly  tiself.  Eliminate  that 
knowledge  entirely,  and  I  am  almost 
appalled  at  the  inquiries  and  applica¬ 
tions  coming  to  me  daily.  During  the 
past  week,  here  in  Raleigh,  four 
splendid  widows  have  beseeched  me 
to  take  their  boys  back  home,  with 
me.  Boys  twelve  years  old  and  be¬ 
yond  the  control  of  teachers  and 
mothers!  What  are  you  going  to  do 
with  them?  I  have  nearly  2  00  appli¬ 
cations.  The  first  pupil  we  received 
is  less  than  12  years  old.  He  violated 
the  dignity  of  the  law.  Turn  him 
loose  means  a  license  for  his  doing 
worse.  Convict  him  and  imprison 
him  with  hardened  criminals,  without 
hope,  you  crush  his  life;  you  destroy 
him.  So  far  as  saving  him  to  the 
State  or  so  far  as  h'is  soul  is  con¬ 
cerned,  it  might  be  cheaper  and  the 
shortest  route  to  give  him  a  ticket  to 
everlasting  perdition. 

Every  man  and  woman  in  the 
State  of  North  Carolina  knows  of  a 
boy  or  two  in  every  town  in  the 
State  who  though  young,  has  gotten 
beyond  control  of  parent  and  teacher 
— has  become  a  law  unto  himself. 
Unless  he  is  protected  from  himself 
beyond  that  most  critical  age  of  a 
boy — 12  to  17 — there  is  a  strong  pro¬ 
bability  of  a  criminal  being  turned 
out. 

The  Plain  Condition. 

We  have  room  now  for  sixty.  We 
can  have  in  the  early  summer  or  fall 
accommodations  for  sixty  more. 
Were  section  12  of  chapter  5  09  of 
the  laws  of  19  07  invoked,  but  discre- 


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tionary  with  the  Governor,  our  capa¬ 
city  would  soon  be  filled.  We  trust 
he  will  not  invoke  it  at  this  time,  for 
in  a  very  short  time  (1)  it  can  be 
filled  from  the  courts  now  holding; 
and  (2)  we  have  now  no  funds,  the 
cost  of  keep,  care  and  teaching  fall¬ 
ing  upon  a  friend  of  the  cause  whose 
name  it  is  unnecessary  to  mention  in 
this  connection. 

What  We  Need. 

We  need  from  the  State  funds  for 
the  erection  of  an  administration 
building.  This  building  if  erected  by 
any  other  State  institution  would  cost 
$40,000  or  more.  We  ask  and  need 
just  $20,000.  In  this  building  we 
have  offices,  home  for  superintendent, 
home  for  lady  teachers,  four  school 
rooms,  space  for  ce»ntral  heating  plant 
and  for  the  installation  of  industrial 
features,  such  as  type-setting  and 
printing,  tailoring,  shoe-making,  etc., 
etc.  The  boys  make  the  brick  on  the 
ground:  the  boys,  under  the  direction 
of  a  competent  mason,  make  the  mor¬ 
tar  and  lay  the  brick;  they  do  the 
wood  work  and  the  plastering.  Jn 
this  w^ay  they  are  taught  and  become 
producers. 

We  need  $15,000  for  the  first  year’s 
support  and  maintenance  and  $20,000 
annually  thereafter  for  support.  It 
will  require  nearly  as  much  assistance, 
teaching,  etc.,  etc.,  for  the  sixty  this 
year,  as  200  later  on.  We  need  to 
buy  clothing,  food,  equipment,  stock, 
machinery,  tools,  supplies  and  a  thou¬ 
sand  and  one  things  during  the  first 
year.  And  until  we  get  our  fields  in 
shape  it  would  be  useless  to  hope  for 
much  assistance  from  the  farm,  to 
which,  so  far  as  the  manual  work  this 
year  is  concerned,  the  boys  will  be 
directed.  I  am  reasonably  certain  that 
even  by  the  time  we  reach  our  ulti¬ 
mate  capacity  (.300)  the  cost  of  keep 
will  not  go  beyond  $20,000  annually. 
By  that  time  we  shall  have  our  or¬ 
chards,  berry  patches,  fields  and  in¬ 
dustrial  features  so  well  installed  that 
they  will  contribute' largely  to  the  sup¬ 
port. 


The  School  in  Class  of  Its  Own. 

No  other  institution  in  the  State 
gives  free  absolutely  all  that  goes  to 
one’s  keep  in  school.  No  other  in¬ 
stitution  has  much  concern  about  the 
real  physical  detention  of  their  pu¬ 
pils — yet  the  small  amount  we  feel 
certain  we  need  does  not  approach 
per  capital  50  per  cent  of  what  is 
asked  and  given  to  other  institutions. 
I  have  been  criticised  for  making  a 
modest  request,  but  I  am  speaking 
for  the  board  as  well  as  myself  when 
I  say  that  we  do  not  desire  a  single 
dollar  that  we  cannot  spend  judicious¬ 
ly  and  in  a  way  that  will  best  carry 
out  the  spirit  of  our  institution.  We 
have  a  property  worth  more  than 
$30,000  upon  an  appropriation  of 
only  $10,000.  Knowing  the  temper 
of  my  board,  the  spirit  and  the  en¬ 
thusiasm  of  interested  friends  in  the 
State  and  out,  I  am  safe  in  declaring 
that,  when  we  again  give  an  account 
of  our  stewardship,  it  will  be  two  dol¬ 
lars  for  every  one  the  State  contri¬ 
butes.  This  is  the  low  view,  however; 
for  value  of  a  useful  life  to  the  State 
or  the  condition  of*  a  soul  hereafter 
is  not  to  be  figured  on  these  lines. 

The  StO'newall  Jackson  Training 
School,  Mr.  Editor,  is  the  response  to 
the  demand  of  humanity.  It  occupies 
an  important  sphere  in  the  activities 
of  the  State.  It  believes  all  boys  un¬ 
der  16  years  of  age  deserve  a  chance, 
other  than  that  in  the  environment  of 
a  criminal.  It  believes  that  no  boy, 
violating  faw  and  order,  should  be 
turned  loose  because  of  his  youth; 
neither  does  it  believe  that  a  great 
State,  directed  by  such  a  high  class 
citizenship,  should  imprison  that  boy 
with  hardened  and  diseased  criminals 
"Who  have  no  hope.  It  believes  that 
hundreds  of  mothers  and  fathers,  dis¬ 
tressed  over  the  condition  of  an  in¬ 
corrigible  boy,  should  have  some 
means  of  relief  other  than  a  prison 
life  for  their  sons.  The  spirit  that 
made  the  Jackson  Training  School 
take  shape  and  come  into  existence 
believes  that  it  is  cheaper  and  better 


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to  control  and  train  a  wild,  nervous 
boy  than  to  later  on  arrest,  try,  con¬ 
vict  and  punish  a  criminal.  And  this 
does  not  touch  that  higher  and  nobler 
plane  which  leads  us  to  believe  that 
possibly  a  useful  life  and  an  immortal 

soul  may  be  saved. 

• 

It  Has  Friends. 

It  is  pleasing,  because  it  convinces 
us  of  the  wisdom  of  our  efforts  to 
have  the  unanimous  and  earnest  en¬ 
dorsement  of  the  State  Association  of 
County  Superintendents  and  that  of 
the  City  Superintendents;  and  it  is  of 
peculiar  pleasure  to  feel  that  the 
Stonewall  Jackson  Training  School 
and  what  it  stands  for  has  the  strong 
support  of  that  able  educational  lead¬ 
er,  Superintendent  J.  Y.  Joyner,  who 
volunteers  his  personal  and  official  ap¬ 
proval  and  help. 

As  far  as  we  know  the  future  by 
present  conditions  and  by  the  knowl¬ 
edge  of  the  past,  it  is  a  certainty  that 
every  educational  organization;  the 
orphanages  of  the  State,  every  min¬ 
ister  and  all  the  charitable  organiza¬ 
tions  and  humane  societies  of  North 
Carolina  will  applaud  a  generous  and 
kind  support  from  the  General  As¬ 
sembly  of  1909. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  have  done 
their  best.  It  can  plan  and  act  in 
furthering  the  future  of  this  important 
educational  interest  only  as  the  Gen¬ 
eral  Assembly  gives  it  support — the 
measure  of  the  institution’s  future  is 
the  measure  by  which  the  Legislature 
deals  with  it.  If  they  deny  support — 
that,  paralyzing  the  cause,  ends  the 
chapter.  If  they  will  otherwise,  it 
has  in  advance  the  pledge  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  a  faithful  service 
in  so  far  as  it  has  light  to  do. 

I  thank  Tlie  News  and  Observer  for 
this  opportunity  to  speak  of  our  in¬ 
stitution  through  your  influential  and 
widely  read  journal. 

JAS.  P.  COOK,  Chairman, 
Board  Trustees  Stonew^all  Jackson 
Manual  Training  and  Industrial 
School. 


SAVF  THF  ERRING  BOYS. 


Elsewhere  is  printed  in  today’s  pa¬ 
per  a  full  and  illuminating  statement 
about  the  Stonewall  Jackson  Training 
School  at  Concord.  It  has  been  pre 
pared  by  Mr.  J.  P.  Cook,  chairman  of 
the  board  of  trustees  by  request  of 
the  editor  of  this  paper.  It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  it  will  be  read  carefully 
by  every  subscriber  and  his  wife,  for 
it  is  an  interesting  account  of  a  noble 
work  which  has  been  upon  the  hearts 
of  some  of  the  best  men  aind  best  wo¬ 
men  in  North  Carolina.  It  is  no  in¬ 
stitution  founded  to  give  som.ebody  a 
place  or  do  something  for  somebody 
who  wanted  something  for  himself.  It 
is  an  institution  born  in  the  hearts  of 
the  King’s  Daughters — a  band  of  wo¬ 
men  who  have  wmrthily  won  the  high¬ 
est  name  that  can  be  bestowed  upon 
women.  They  have  wrought  well, 
aided  by  men  as  unselfish  and  pa¬ 
triotic  as  the  State  has  known  in  its 
long  history,  and  the  story  of  what 
they  have  done  told  in  today’s  paper 
is  one  that  will  wnn  the  approval  of 
all  good  people  and  touch  the  hearts 
of  many. 

The  best  hope  of  the  State  is  in  its 
boys.  It  is  spending  much  money  to 
educate  them,  and  properly  so.  These 
good  men  and  these  good  women  who 
established  the  Stonewall  Jackson 
Training  School  wish  to  reach  out 
their  hands  and  save  the  erring  boys. 
There  are  many  boys — (many  more, 
according  to  Mr.  Cook’s  statement, 
than  w'e  had  supposed) — who  need 
the  training  and  drill  Vv^hich  this  Re¬ 
formatory  wall  give.  It  should  be 
made  a  place  for  work  and  self-care, 
in  so  far  as  possible.  Mr.  Walter 
Thompson,  the  superintendent,  is  a 
sterling  man  of  wmrth  and  capacity — 
the  right  man  in  the  right  place.  The 
directors  have  paid  their  own  expenses 
and  given  of  their  time  and  money, 
and  deserve  the  thanks  and  gratitude 
of  all  good  men  and  w’omen.  Mr. 
Cook,  the  chairman,  has  spent  his 
money  freely — and  he  is  a  poor  man — 
to  start  the  institution.  The  Legisla¬ 
ture  wall  no  doubt  recognize  the  im- 


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portance  of  the  work  that  can  be 
clone  and  grant  the  moderate  request 
of  the  board. — Ediiorial  in  Raleigh  Neics 
and  Observer,  Feb.  10,  1900. 

- „ — - - 

THE  ALANUAL  TRAINING  SCHOOL. 

We  hope  the  State  is  duly  impressed 
with  the  fact  that  the  two  first  build¬ 
ings  of  the  Stone  .vail  Jackson  Manual 
Training  School  at  Concord  have  been 
completed  and  will  be  open  for  sixty  boys 
to-morrow.  The  Legislature  gave  for 
this  new  institution  only  $10,000.  Three 
hundred  acres  of  splendid  land,  worth 
another  $10,000,  were  donated,  chiefly 
by  the  people  of  Concoicl.  The  lowest 
bid  for  the  erection  of  the  two  buildings 
exclusive  of  plumbing  and  heating  that 
could  be  gotten  from  any  responsible 
bidder  was  $16,000,  and  the  trustees  and 
superintendent  did  their  own  building. 
They  touched  the  benevilient  heart,  here 
and  there,  and  have,  in  addition  to  the 
land  and  buildings,  a  lot  of  fine  farming 
tools,  good  stock,  a  well  and  waterworks, 
and  have  little  debt.  Several  ladies  of 
Concord,  individual! v  and  through  their 
clubs,  have  furnished  the  heavy  aiticles 
for  the  first  cottage,  such  as  range  and 
tables;  but  everything  else  needed  for 
the  furnishing  of  a  home  is  lacking.  To- 
day  is  the  date  fixed  for  a  shower  of 
household  furnishings,  to  be  held  in  one 
of  the  new  buildings,  which  will  thus 
have  its  inaugural. 

Prof.  J.  P.  Cook,  chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  together  with  the 
board  as  a  body  and  Superintendent 
Walter  Thompson,  have  accomplished 
wonderful  results  with  the  funds  in  hand 
and  are  worthy  of  all  applause.  It  is 
a  great  humanitarian  institution  they 
have  established,  and  one  which  will 


confer  life-long  benefit  upon  wayward 
and  unfortunate  boys.  The  people  of  the 
State,  especially  the  ladies,  will,  without 
doubt,  aid  them  in  the  work  they  have 
undertaken,  and  the  Legislature  will, 
we  are  sure,  be  good  to  them  and  helpful 
of  the  cause  in  which  they  are  engaged. — 
Editorial  in  Charlotte  Observer,  January 
n,  1909. 

- - 

■ . ,  N.  C.,  Jan.  9,  1009. 

Dear  Sir: — There  is  in  my  home  a 
nephew  of  mine  between  twelve  and  thir¬ 
teen  years  of  age  whose  parents  aie  dead. 

My  father  and  mother  have  had  him 
three  years,  and  during  that  time  have 
exerted  every  influence  for  his  better- 
ment,  but  to  no  avail. 

He  will  leave  home  in  the  morning 

O 

pretending  to  go  to  school,  return  to 
dinner,  and  we  see  no  more  of  him 
until  an  ollicer  finds  him  and  brings  him 
home  liy  request,  two  or  three  days  later. 

His  youthful  ness  and  the  respect  of 
the  people  in  the  town  for  my  father, 
who  is  a  Confederate  veteran  77  years 
old,  are  the  only  things  that  have  kept 
him  from  being  classed  as  a  criminal. 

Will  you  please  tell  me  if  your  insti¬ 
tution  takes  such  boj^s;  if  so,  what  are 
the  requirements?  We  have  done  all  for 
him  that  can  be  done  by  persuasion, 
mentally  and  physically,  and  if  you  can 
offer  us  any  hope  in  this  case  it  will  be 
greatly  appreciated. 

Wishing  you  the  best  of  success  in 
training  the  wayward  boys  in  our  State. 
I  am. 

Very  respectfully, 

(Mrs.) . 

[For  obvious  reasons,  the  town  and 
writer’s  name  are  omitted.  This  is  a 
sample  of  nearly  two  hundred  letters 
received.] 


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